Foreword
Julianne Pierce of VNS Matrix
Thirty years ago, four Australian artists wrote a rambling stream-of-consciousness text with inspirations ranging from French feminist theory and the cyberpunk writings of William Gibson to Donna Hara…Through its history, cyberfeminism has often been defined by what it is expressly not. [^87] Coined in the early 1990s by the British cultural theorist Sadie Plant [^122-p6] and VNS Matrix, the word “cyberfeminism” takes on its prefix “cybe…
William Gibson
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William Gibson is a foundational cyberpunk author whose speculative fiction about networked systems, artificial intelligence, and virtual space provided crucial imaginative frameworks for understanding computational culture. In the course readings, Gibson appears as a key intellectual source for VNS Matrix's cyberfeminism—their manifesto drew explicitly on his cyberpunk worldbuilding alongside Haraway and French feminist theory to theorize how feminist subjects might intervene in digital networks. His work bridges science fiction and critical theory, offering the aesthetic and conceptual vocabulary through which artists and theorists have articulated the political possibilities of cyberspace.
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